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Fine jeweler Cheryl Swartz announces retirement sale

(The below story was originally published in the Tribune in 2018. This week, Cheryl Swartz announced her much-deserved retirement and is holding a sale to clear out inventory.) Art for jeweler Cheryl Swartz is more than a labor of love; it is a lifetime of passion, work, and a lot of tools. “I have a lot of tools, it’s one of the things that I love about making jewelry,” Swartz smiles, her studio shop neatly lined with delicate hammers, pliers, and of course, a small specialized blow torch used to manipulate precious metals and stones into masterpieces. Swartz has spent a lifetime making and selling her jewelry across the United States; and for the last several years, her shop located on Main Street in downtown…